As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch